Prophecy of Vecna's Demise
The Prophecy of Vecna's Demise is a fulfilled prophecy written in Y990 by the Diviner Angie Arrowfern. The full text of the prophecy is as follows:
(Note: the above prophecy was translated into standard prophetic verse form from Halfling.)
The prophecy was fulfilled in Y1070 when Sir Julien Hawthorne defeated the Sisters of Sorrow in the Battle of the Ignan Throne. After stabbing the Eye and Hand of Vecna through with the Scholar's Sword, he threw their bodies (along with the Eye and Hand) into the volcano where the Ignan Throne sits.
When heiresses of Morigana's pow'r
Are brought to ruin in a single day,
Then bearer of the brother's blade shall cleave
The Eye and Hand from their immortal sway.
(Note: the above prophecy was translated into standard prophetic verse form from Halfling.)
The prophecy was fulfilled in Y1070 when Sir Julien Hawthorne defeated the Sisters of Sorrow in the Battle of the Ignan Throne. After stabbing the Eye and Hand of Vecna through with the Scholar's Sword, he threw their bodies (along with the Eye and Hand) into the volcano where the Ignan Throne sits.
Controversy
Halfling is a notoriously difficult language to translate to and from, due to its odd and inconsistent pluralization rules. Some early published editions of the prophecy instead translated "the brother's blade" as "brothers' blades" or even "brother-blades," as two swords from the same smith are often known in the Elven Swordmaking tradition. Attempts to verify the prophecy by other diviners proved just as inconsistent. Editors largely began to settle on the variant "brothers' blades" after it was published as such in the Cape Hildegard Herald in Y1051, during the rise of the Sisters of Sorrow. At the Red Coronation in Y1053, when then-Phoenix Regnant Aegorus I and his brother General Vaslavi both impaled the Eye and the Hand with their swords to no effect before being slain, this translation was thrown into doubt. Artificer Lida Rose Hawthorne, from the then-disgraced Hawthorne Garage, publicly announced in a Council of Deans meeting in Y1058 that she had found the alternate "brother's blade" translation of the prophecy and intended to fulfill it by forging a magical blade for her brother Julien, who had been a celebrated Paladin for several decades by that point. Though the Council had its doubts about this proclamation, the Cape Hildegard Herald—and, in particular, its chief editor Lady Morgana—wholly supported this theory and promoted its widespread acceptance.
Type
Manuscript, Magical (Tome/Scroll)
Medium
Oral Tradition / Word of Mouth
Myth
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